Article - CS130256
Windchill PDMLink: What are WVS Positioning Assembly and Extended Positioning Assembly representations and how are they published?
Modified: 24-Oct-2025
Applies To
- Creo View Adapters 1.0 to 12.1
- ProductView Adapters and Creo Elements/View Adapters 12.1 to 13.0
- Windchill PDMLink 9.1 to 13.1
- Windchill ProjectLink 9.1 to 13.1
- Pro/INTRALINK 8.x + 9.1 to 11.2
- PTC Arbortext Content Manager 9.1 to 11.1
- Windchill PDM Essentials 10.1 to 11.1
- Windchill Visualization Services (WVS)
- Adapter for Creo Parametric
- Adapter for CATIA V5
- Adapter for Creo Elements/Direct Modeling
- Theorem CADverter
Description
- What are WVS Positioning Assembly and Extended Positioning Assembly representations?
- What are the differences between Positioning Assembly and Extended Positioning Assembly representations?
- The Extended Positioning Assembly publishing configuration is not currently documented
- What are the requirements for Pos Assy publishing?
- Keywords: PosAssy, XPosAssy, SimpRep, CADRep
- What documents will tell how to configure Creo and/or Windchill so that the representations work as advertised and can be drill down into the large assemblies?
- Is it possible to make an Autodesk Inventor assembly a Positioning assembly in Windchill PDMLink?
- Unable to create a representation in Windchill PDMLink for an assembly model that has an IBA which is declared for publishing (or not) as a POSASSY assembly, the publish rules file dictates the rule for engaging the IBA based on its value
- Is it possible to publish only the Default Simplified Rep and not the Master Rep
- What is Positioning Assembly and what's the difference?
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